Chapter: 482
“But why didn’t he live with us?”
Confused, Theor tilted his head.
“Does His Majesty not like living with us?”
“……”
Astelle hugged Theor gently.
She had no idea where Theor heard this from.
Her heart ached as she looked into his clear ruby eyes, but she couldn’t tell the young Theor everything.
Instead, Astelle said, “It’s not like that. His Majesty couldn’t live with us because he was too busy.”
“Is that so?”
Astelle stroked Theor’s dark hair.
“Yes…… But now everything’s okay. We will now go to the Imperial Palace and live with His Majesty.”
I didn’t want to go to the Imperial Palace, but it’d be better to move quickly.
I do not know when it will be, but sooner or later I will enter the Imperial Palace.
It’s safer to stay in the Imperial Palace than this mansion.
“Then are we not going home?”
“……”
Astelle did not answer the question for a moment.
The six years of living in the countryside were difficult but peaceful.
She and her grandfather lived happily watching Theor grow day by day.
I will never be able to go back to those days again.
My heart ached at the thought that the peaceful and simple happiness had ended forever.
Astelle looked at Theor and replied, “Yes, we are not going home.”
***
The next day, Astelle invited Fritz to the mansion.
In fact, he didn’t even need to be invited.